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Everybody “knows” where public education is lacking but most of the complaints ignore the reality that there is an awful lot to teach kids in a few short years and there just isn't enough time to do more than scratch the surface on anything. My wife and I are history buffs. We often talk about how inadequately we learned history in school. But we both agree that the best our schools can do is make students want to read history on their own and that means demonstrating that the past can be far more interesting than any fiction. The only teacher I ever had who could do that was the late and legendary Ralph Dilts at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. It's his fault that my bedroom wall is lined with history books. A few weeks ago, Betty and I got to talking about how conventional accounts of the American Civil War are full of sound and fury but short on real insight into what was happening. For example, I suggested that the war between the states was unnecessarily prolonged...
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